Liam Neeson almost works as a Drebin for a new, coarser, meaner age, and he has no problem suggesting a surly, disgruntled son of the cop immortalized by Leslie Nielsen in the short-lived 1982 TV series “Police Squad!

Liam Neeson's The Naked Gun is set to pull off a jaw-dropping feat: scoring the biggest opening weekend for a Liam Neeson-led movie in a decade. Stepping into the trench coat of Frank Drebin Jr.

David Zucker, the director and co-writer of the 1988 spoof comedy “The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!,” has a lot of gripes with the new reboot — from the casting of Liam Neeson as Lt. Frank Drebin,